{"product_id":"9781526653451","title":"Admiring Silence: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021","description":"Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526653451\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Mar 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home' \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_____________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHe thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that.\u003cbr\u003eThings do not happen quite as he imagined     the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. \u003cbr\u003eTwenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631839039646,"sku":"UBD-9781526653451","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526653451.jpg?v=1774309876","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526653451","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}